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Murder in a US POW camp

12th March 1944: Nazi submariners kill fellow POW who has co-operated with his captors - leading to the last mass execution in the U.S.

Mar 12, 2024
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One of the images from the well documented attack on U-118 by planes from the USS Bogue.

On the 12th June 1943 planes from the USS Bogue had attacked U-118 and sunk her. There was a particularly good photographic record of the attack, and a number of survivors were picked up, which helped document exactly what had happened.

Both the Royal Navy and the US…

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